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Ricoh India brings technology in classrooms

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Ricoh India Ltd. a market leader in Printing & Document solutions and IT services, today announced its foray into the multimedia solutions for K12 School, with the launch of Ricoh IntelliClass. It is a state-of-the-art solution designed for Indian schools that offer modern multimedia classroom with world class content. It is a unique solution which includes comprehensive coverage of content across K12 segment.

The solution was launched by Dr. Shayama Chona a renowned Educationist, Founder-President of Tamana Association and the former Principal of Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram, New Delhi. Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Chona said, β€œThe school ecosystem of India is in need of a robust and comprehensive solution to enable multimedia integration inside classrooms. The IntelliClass solution is a leap forward – it enables collaborative learning by enabling each student and teacher to use their creativity and innovation to add to the product.

Ricoh IntelliClass is digital multimedia learning solution which caters to the learning needs of the students and enables infrastructure that makes classrooms achieve global standards. IntelliClass is created keeping in mind different learning abilities of students of various age group. The classroom typically comes with PC, fingers touch interactive whiteboard, speakers, projectors, UPS & cabinets. Infrastructure is specially designed and tested to suit Indian operating condition. The solution provides students an opportunity to not just learn according to the curriculum but also give a chance to improve their IT competency.

Speaking on the occasion, Manoj Kumar, Executive Vice President and CEO, said, β€œEducation market in India is estimated to be US$ 135 billion by 2020, of which the e-learning market alone will be US$ 7 billion. We expect huge increase in student population, 200 million in K-12 and 90 million in private schools. Ricoh IntelliClass solution is capable of providing quality education to students by helping them in better concept formation, concept elaboration, and academic achievement. We wish to make learning more interactive and interesting and take it beyond textbooks and chalkboard. With the introduction of Ricoh IntelliClass solution, we are committed to provide best in class education to the students for brighter future.”

Ricoh IntelliClass content library enables teachers to create question banks, assessment, class test, class presentations, CCE worksheets and lesson plans from over 50000 chapter mapped questions. The unique lesson planner allows teachers to create their own interactive lesson plans, presentation from existing content as well as external sources and share lesson plan with other teachers, interactive virtual labs – engages simulated environment wherein students can learn through experiments.